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How I Got Into Uglydolls

So I thought I had posted something like this already, but when I went back and looked, I realized I hadn't. This is just some background, how I discovered this franchise I've grown to love as well as what my first impressions were back when I didn't have any context. Looking back on it now, I find it funny how wrong I was about some things and yet how right I was about others 😂.

So if you live in America you may know that the UglyDolls movie hit theaters in May. May 3rd if I remember right, but I'm not quite sure of that and frankly I'm too lazy to type the question into Google 😂. Anywho, setting that aside, despite the movie apparently having spent over twice what it made in theaters on advertising (big oof 😅,) thinking back I don't remember seeing a single commercial for it. Maybe I was just watching the wrong channels on TV, but I was barely aware this movie existed. At one point towards the very end I think I might've seen the last few seconds of a commercial.. I somewhat remember seeing Moxy and Uglydog trying to disguise themselves as pretty dolls, and the actual pretty dolls acting disgusted. Followed by the logo for the movie. At the time I believe my thoughts went along the lines of, Super, yet ANOTHER Anvillicious cartoon that tries way too hard to hammer it's sociopolitical message and ends up being way too forced and stilted. Wonderful. /s And then whatever show I was watching at the time came on, and I forgot all about it. I never saw a commercial since then, and for a while UglyDolls just wasn't on my mind at all.

The next time I encountered UglyDolls was around the time when it was still showing in theaters. I was at Walmart at the time. I don't know if every Walmart does this, but in the one in my area there's this one specific aisle that sells merch for whatever is the hot movie at the time (Since Soul went straight to Disney+, I believe currently that aisle is filled with merch for the reboot of Blues Clues). Anyway, the end of that aisle had three really big displays of the UglyDolls plushies: two smaller ones of the keychains and of the artist series dolls, and the biggest one had both the Sincerely, Uglydolls models and the Feature Sounds models. (Looking back, why oh why didn't my past self snap them up while they were cheap??? 😭)

There was a lot of merch there, almost enough to fill the aisle, and they were certainly hyping up this movie quite a bit. But the display was... not exactly ideal for people who didn't already know about the line of dolls from the early 2000s. It was just the movie poster (the one that became the cover of the DVD case), a large cardboard version of the movie logo, and the three displays. That was it. There was no indication of the character's personalities or roles (other than what could be deduced from the poster, which to be fair wasn't nothing, but also wasn't a lot), I didn't even see their names written anywhere.

I decided to check out the display despite having forgotten about the movie because I was (and still am) interested in the "cute little monster" sort of aesthetic. I have a book called "Make Your Own Stupid Sock Creatures". I love Fugglers and Furbies. 

(Nothing to do with the actual story, but LOOK AT THESE LONG FURBIES I FOUND!!! I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THESE EXISTED BEFORE, NOW I WANT THE RAINBOW ONE!!! ✪ ω ✪)